News & Observations

Semantics - the meaning of words. Off the top of my head, I've done a short list below of the words which "crop up" often in my thinking - I'll leave them "uncut" and go to the dictionary and see what it says. Instinct - how the body has been programmed to react to stimulae. Volition - the choice taken to act on options the mind and body is presented with. Intuition - what we accumulate as sub-conscious filters for action choices. Reason - the process of choosing and applying rules to rationalise a situation of choice. Inculcation - what we allow others to persuade us are the critria for choice. Compulsion - the choice of an action is dictated What are the colloquial equivalents? Is there a generic for the set? My observations may tend this way:

To go with the wedding gift - 4 Jul 08

How do we tell you what you know we feel? Us all together, whereever, always full of zeal In just being there for all and each other Going every which way and coming back together Ravioli, minestrone, pizza and cannelloni In Breccia, Verona, Padova and Venezia ...
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Birthday - Merlot and Cigarettes - 19 Nov 07

My daughter Shelly is the organiser - drinks from 7 pm and the theme - Merlot and Cigarettes - (most encompassing). All friends and acquaintances most welcome, particularly those who share these pages.
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Black and White - 24 Oct 07

Funny? How much is lost in putting techni-colour in black and white? The greener grass is now a darker shade of grey As the gold and silver lose their lustre All the eyes can say is yes or no. Blue skies and white frilly...
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Love - what we know - 14 Mar 07

Love life - we have it, no? Your choice. Love nature - live with her, no? What is it you have which is better? Love yourself? What is in you woud deserve this? Who knows? You do. Love...
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To Margaret - bless her heart - 21 Feb 07

CAPTURE IT- OCCASION - FUNERAL For my immediate family, who could not be there - just a taste - Back now from wnderful occasion - for all the pre-amble - got there by bus and just a little walk to all our kind among the trees for lovely family tributes - all brothers and...
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Moving On - 6 Feb 07

When self knowledge has beaten home the home truths And thorough examination has revealed the delicate balance in all, Then faith alone may tip the scales of fate. Faith alone absolves the soul of hopelessness, Courage comes...
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Long weekend reading - 20 Jan 07

Of all the choices in impecunity open to me; my daughter's car, house, fridge and grog cabinet, plus the lawn to sow out back when weather and inspiration co-operate, my default option had me hooked on my latest Leys Institute library acquisitions and reclining in both of my two home locations...
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Passion In - 9 Jan 07

Passion In Love transcends all age All obligations as fetters The cage is sprung Nothing beats being young If this could be sung...
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Pure Water from the Bore and Well - 29 Dec 06

There is nothing underhand or "pie-in-the-sky" about new technology improving the water purification business. It is now a timely innovation for a particular segment of a critical market - dairy production and export for New Zealand world wide....
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In Memory of Lexie - 29 Dec 06

Lexie My grand niece Lexie died last Sunday In her mother's arms and aged just under three Was born with an untreatable, incurable malady. Under the sentence of death from the day ...
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Firewood for Agenzia - 28 Dec 06

Hi Agi Try google "firewood cut store" interesting pages on firewood. My experience: Allow for a double row, stack from...
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Content Management System up-date - 14 Nov 06

While I wait for "the muse" to wake in me again, this here is to acknowledge my son-in-law, Harvey Kane, as the genius behind this user friendly content management system which has me publishing...
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Passion Out poem - 4 Apr 06

A poem of inner conflict. "Passion" is a word which has been commandeered by the business world to describe that rare attribute which "puts fire into the guts". In this poem we look at...
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Show Over - followed by "the blues" - 23 Feb 06

This 'Merry Wives of Windsor" was a great little show, getting up a bit then falling over "- appens to all" - but neat to work with brilliant young amateur actors - youth seem to find it that much...
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"Tower Ravens Locked Up" NZ Herald News - 23 Feb 06

With bird flu in Europe, the Tower of London Yeoman Raven Master, Derrick Coyle, has consigned his ravens to cages - word is if there are not six ravens on duty at the tower as Charles II decreed...
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Thank you Marty - 27 Jan 06

> Marty says --- > > the dam of dramatic wit has been bursted. > and for some of those rhymes you should be arrested. > > Keep it up > Rob replies ---- Arrestable rhymes are no laughing matter...
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First night - fantastic - 18 Jan 06

Just done the first show - you would not believe how this show came together. Dress rehearsal last night was like a dog's breakfast. To-night - amazing!!! Not quite right, but at least very...
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"Pistol" in Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" - 15 Jan 06

Am playing the part of "Pistol" in Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" in the Pumphouse Amphitheatre, Takapuna. Live from 18th January to 11 th February - 12 shows - Book on 09 489 8360....
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"Lovemarks" by Kevin Roberts - my weekend reading - 14 Jan 06

First Reactions: To love "Lovemark" as a Lovemark, do I respect the brilliant articulation of a master of inculcation? That is my dilemna. Yet the "Lovemark" philosophy has an attractive altruism...
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Launched today - Poetry and Verse of Rob Tapper - 12th Jan. 2006 - 12 Jan 06

Are the graveyards heaving as the dead poets turn in their graves? Hail Oscar to the defence!
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Top Down and Bottom Up - 11 Jan 06
Speak to me Julia Roberts my name poetry my passion my muse in your fame - 4 Jan 06